Template:Did you know nominations/James Scaramanga

James Scaramanga

 * ... that WWI flying ace James Scaramanga, commemorated in All Saints' Church Crawley Down (pictured), has a connection to James Bond series author Ian Fleming?
 * Comment: Started on 2 April in user space, moved to article space 4 April, using 4 April date for nom.

Created/expanded by ACP2011 (talk). Self nom at 01:17, 6 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Syzygium cormiflorum Anne (talk) 19:57, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg Everything looks good: new enough, long enough, well-referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. I'm just wondering why you chose to add the fact about Crawley Down rather than write a tighter hook that just links Scaramanga with Fleming's James Bond? Yoninah (talk) 20:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I wanted to use an image from James Bond, but I wasn't certain that any of them would be O.K. to use. I'm still learning about image licensing. I could just eliminate the phrase and the photo:
 * ALT1: ... that WWI flying ace James Scaramanga has a connection to James Bond series author Ian Fleming? Anne (talk) 20:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Both hooks are vague in the extreme. Can we have an ALT to really hook the readers in? I mean, I have a connection to George Washington but it's tenuous as hell. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 17:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Anne. I would also like to suggest something hookier. Here's what I came up with:
 * ALT2: ... that Ian Fleming named his villain in The Man with the Golden Gun after the first cousin of WWI flying ace James Scaramanga? Yoninah (talk) 18:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I like it. Thank you. Anne (talk) 19:06, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 19:22, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your review. Anne (talk) 23:28, 28 April 2012 (UTC)